Day 1 - Cebu - Afternoon

The Afternoon was spent at Ayala Shopping Center, the largest shopping mall in Cebu. It is large and the restaurants there are not the usual ones we see in Singapore, mostly are local names, selling very unique food. The posher ones mostly sells spanish, Italian and Mexican food, and the prices are rather on the high side, and a meal in Ayala shopping center can easily cost as much as a meal in swensens in Singapore ~ 20 bucks per pax.

The interior of Ayala S.C.

Dessert Factory - Sells nothing but desserts, bread and pastries

Sbarro - Sells Pizza and Pasta

Roma-mia - Pizza, Pasta and Grill

Max's - If Im not wrong, this place sells mexican food.

Cafe Laguna - Restarant selling local cuisine

Pancake House - Sells pancakes, waffles and sandwiches

Blueberry-filled Pancake with Blueberry Syrup

quite a generous amount of blueberries hidden within the hot pancake, pour some cold blueberry syrup over it and eat the warm pancake with cold syrup.

This is their Toilet - Comfort lounge as named, because the toilet ain't exactly just a toilet, it has a mini lounge inside

Assortment of sandwiches - arghh, I love bread and sandwiches, how i wish i could just gobble everything up

Peanut Butter!

After the sinful pancake, we took a walk around the mart. Their food mart is sooooo interesting! so much better than carrefour or giant or cold storage or jasons or NTUC or shengsiong...whateva you named it, Cebu mart rocks! As you know I am a crazy fan of peanut butter, and upon seeing the varieties of peanut butter that they sell, i was literally droolingz... ahh... so many organic ones too! omg...

Reese stuffs, they have lots of it... butter cups, cereals, chocolates etc etc... so many... if you are a reese lover... come cebu now!

Reese

and more reese'ssss

and more...

and more more more...

Went to their Mcdonalds - They have spaghetti in their menu... probably due to the Spanish colonial influence...

Then... we went to their food court, I always love to go to a country's food court, it gives you a feel of what the locals eat... + its cheap

Cebu has lots of grills...

pork belly, pork balls, clam soup and some Unidentified Food

Grilled Squid, Grilled Fish, skewers etc...

Fish Soup, Different types of grilled meat and some Unidentified Food again...

this is the Dessert section, the one at the center is caramelized sliced bananas, then at the left is chendol-like stuffs...

Our order: Spring Roll, Grill Squid, Burnt Fish and Clam Soup

Big and juicy... but the soup cannot be drank! sooo salty! taste like sea water... -_-

I love the Spring roll man... its cover with some peanuty gravy. Taste very different from the usual spring rolls that we eat.

Burpz... left the rice untouched... hehe

After the sumptuous lunch + all the little snacks and bread which we ate along the way... I feel so guilty. So we went to their gym to work out! so surprised that they actually have fitness first over there, but it seems less well-equipped than the ones in Singapore.




You think im so siao (crazy in dialect Hokkien) ah? After that... was more bread along the way... haha. Cebu has very good bread. All the bread pictures were gone, and unable to recover. One unforgettable one was the cinnamon roll... damn big, damn big raisins, lots of it, every mouthful was burst of raisins and cinnamon taste... ahh...too bad... no pictures...

Next, more sightseeing + smelly wet market and the ghostly encounter...